Sketches From Oldest America 



Before the season closed he had killed three 

 more, and the following year he did the same thing 

 again; so that instead of being a poor blind man, a 

 care to his parents, Allugua proved to be one of the 

 most successful whalers in the village. 



Caterpillar 



It is not long since ghosts and fairies were fully 

 believed in in the far north, as they were in the 

 olden days in our more civilized countries. The 

 men and women who claimed they had seen such 

 apparitions were so common that no one doubted 

 their statements or gave the subject an investigation, 

 but would listen patiently, no matter how extrava- 

 gant the story might be. Even to-day, superstition 

 seems to exist among the older people, although 

 there is scarcely any one who would care to assert 

 that he had seen such a thing at a very recent date, 

 in 1892 a young woman came to me with the infor- 

 mation that the previous evening an "Ongootkoot" 

 had seen a black man and boy walk slowly across 

 the land, then out upon the ocean, where they 

 disappeared. 



Quite a while back, a man and his wife had gone 

 into the interior country in search of deer. The 

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